[agents] SOCASE @ AAMAS 2008

[Ryszard Kowalczyk]

                    CALL FOR PAPERS

		The International Workshop on
SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING: AGENTS, SEMANTICS, AND ENGINEERING(SOCASE)
		http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2008/ 
  
to be held at the Seventh International Joint Conference on
        AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-2008)
		Estoril, Portugal, May 12 - 16, 2008
		http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/aamas2008/ 

DESCRIPTION
The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the recent
significant 
developments at the intersections of Multi-agent Systems, Semantic
Technology, 
and Service-oriented Computing, and to promote cross-fertilization of 
techniques. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from 
Multi-agent System and Semantic Technology research that will have the
greatest 
impact on automating service-oriented application construction and
management, 
focusing on critical challenges such as service quality assurance,
reliability, 
and adaptability.

The Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering
(SOCASE) workshop continues the theme of previous SOCASE workshop
successfully held at 
AAMAS’07, the SOCABE workshops held at AAMAS’06, AAMAS’05 and the WSABE
workshops 
held at AAMAS’04 and AAMAS’03, with an expanded theme reflecting the wide 
spectrum of issues of the cross section between agent-based and
service-oriented 
paradigms.

TOPICS
We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of agent technology,

Semantic Web services, and Service-oriented Computing. Topics of interest
include, 
but are not limited to:

- Agent-oriented architectures, frameworks, and infrastructures for
distributed 
  service-oriented software and Semantic Web systems
- Agent-oriented modeling and design methods and tools for service-oriented 
  software and Semantic Web development
- Web services and Semantic Web technologies and standards for multi-agent
system 
  design, development and integration
- Agent-enabled adaptation, evolution, and optimization of services and
processes
- Agent-based service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery,
and 
  brokering
- Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography
- Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling for service execution and
delivery
- Agent-based negotiation and management of Quality of Service and Service
Level 
  Agreements
- Deployment and distribution of agent-based service systems and
service-oriented 
  agent systems
- Agent-based service business models, application scenarios and demos (e.g.
in 
  e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom, etc.), and lessons learned
- Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration,
composition, 
  and execution
- Ontology generation, learning and reasoning, and ontology-oriented dynamic

  mediation among agents

SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION
Submission is to be done electronically. The detailed instructions will be
provided 
at the SOCASE'08 web page http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2008/.
Contact Quoc 
Bao Vo (bvo at ict.swin.edu.au) for help if required.

The papers should be formatted according to LNCS specification and submitted
as PDF 
files. Instructions and templates can be found at 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Two types of submissions are available: regular submissions of length
3000-4000 
words (approx. 8-12 printed pages) and position papers of length 1200-2000
words 
(approx. 4-6 printed pages). Position papers (and some regular papers) may
be 
presented as part of themed discussion panels; preference may be given to
position 
papers that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent
topics.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers per paper. Selection
criteria 
will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical
soundness, 
quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which
address 
emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of
workshop 
topics. Since this is associated with the AAMAS conference, accepted papers
must 
be of real relevance to the multi-agent research community.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. The SOCASE
2008 
proceedings will be published with Springer’s LNCS, subject to an
appropriate 
number and quality of submissions. A selection of best papers will also be 
invited to submit extended and enhanced versions of the papers to a special 
issue of a major international journal.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline 1 February 2008
Acceptance notification 25 February 2006
Camera-ready deadline 05 March 2006
Proceedings ready 19 March 2006
Workshop held 12 or 13 May 2006

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University, Australia
Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA
Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI
GmbH), Germany Zakaria Maamar Zayed, University, UAE Quoc Bao Vo, Swinburne
University, Australia (point of contact:
bvo at ict.swin.edu.au)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Youcef
Baghdadi, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Djamal Benslimane, Lyon 1
University, France Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada Brian M.
Blake, Georgetown University, USA Peter Braun, The Agent Factory GmbH,
Germany Paul A. Buhler, College of Charleston, USA Bernard Burg, Panasonic
Research, USA Alan Colman, Swinburne University, Australia Jiangbo Dang,
Siemens Corporate Research, USA Ian Dickinson, HP Laboratories Bristol, UK
Manuel Núñez García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Mauro Gaspari,
University of Bologna, Italy Karthik Gomadam, University of Georgia, USA
Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland Slimane Hammoudi,
ESEO, France W.J. van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Jingshan Huang, University of South Carolina, USA Patrick Hung, University
of Ontario, Canada Margaret Lyell, Intelligent Automation, USA Ingo Mueller,
Swinburne University, Australia N.C. Narendra, IBM India Research Lab, India
Xuan Thang Nguyen, Swinburne University, Australia Leo Obrst, The MITRE
Corporation, USA Julian A. Padget, University of Bath, UK Maurice Pagnucco,
University of New South Wales, Australia Pavel Shvaiko, University of
Trento, Italy Terry Payne, University of Southampton, UK Giovanna Petrone,
University of Torino, Italy Debbie Richards, Macquarie University, Australia
Marwan Sabbouh, The MITRE Corporation, USA Francisco García Sánchez,
University of Murcia, Spain Quan Z. Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
Hiroki Suguri, Communication Technologies (Comtec), Japan Jie Tang, Tsinghua
University, China Huaglory Tianfield, Caledonian University Glasgow, UK
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Kunal Verma, Accenture
Technology Labs Palo Alto, USA Steve Wilmott, Universitat Politecnica de
Catalunya, Spain